Chapter one

Question 1

What is the study of the matter and movement of God’s physical creation?

Answer 1

Science

Question 2

What is the substance of physical world anything that occupies space or has substance?

Answer 2

Matter

Question 3

What is the study of soil?

Answer 3

Pedology

Question 4

What type of method is an organized way for scientist to gather in pursue scientific knowledge?

Answer 4

Scientific method

Question 5

What are the three main components of the scientific method?

Answer 5

Hypothesizing ,observation ,experimentation

Question 6

What is a way of explaining an object or event by using a set of facts?

Answer 6

Theory

Question 7

If a theory has never been proven, false scientist, will call it what?

Answer 7

Law

Question 8

What would prove the hypothesis false, this property of hypothesis is called what?

Answer 8

Falsifiability

Question 9

What kind of variable is the factor that you can change to test your hypothesis ?

Answer 9

Independent variable

Question 10

What type of variable is a factor that is observed to determine the results of the experiment?

Answer 10

Dependent variable

Question 11

What kind of variable is the same in all groups?

Answer 11

Controlled variable

Question 12

What kind of group is the group on which a test is performed?

Answer 12

Experimental group

Question 13

What group in which the independent variable is absent? The group is not tested, but is used for a standard for comparison ?

Answer 13

Control group

Question 14

What are any characteristics required to solve the problem?

Answer 14

Constraints

Question 15

What is the minimum characteristics that a design must have to function at all?

Answer 15

Criteria

Question 16

What is the study of reasoning that is essential for any scientist called?

Answer 16

Logic

Question 17

What is a conclusion based on reasoning from evidence?

Answer 17

Inference

Question 18

What kind of reasoning is reasoning from evidence to a more specific conclusion it is used to go by known facts. Discover a new fact that is their logical consequence?

Answer 18

Deductive reasoning

Question 19

In deductive reasoning, a statement of fact is called?

Answer 19

Proposition

Question 20

What kind of proposition is an if/then preposition?

Answer 20

Hypothetical proposition

Question 21

What kind of reasoning is reasoning from specific evidence to a more general conclusion, the ultimate purpose of blank reasoning is to determine cause and effect?

Answer 21

Inductive reasoning

Question 22

What is it called when an experiment repeat multiple times, keeping all factors of similar as possible ?

Answer 22

Repeatability

Question 23

What means the others will reach the same conclusion by performing your experiment themselves under different conditions performing other experiments that test the same hypothesis?

Answer 23

Reproducibility

Question 24

What is anything that provides a partial representation of something else?

Answer 24

Model

Question 25

What kind of material is primarily derived from living organisms?

Answer 25

Organic material

Question 26

What type of material is primary derive from nonliving matter?

Answer 26

Mineral material

Question 27

What measures the pull of gravity on an object?

Answer 27

Weight

Question 28

What measures how tightly packed matter is?

Answer 28

Density

Question 29

What is the amount of space that matter takes up?

Answer 29

Volume

Question 30

What measures the amount of matter in an object?

Answer 30

Mass

Question 31

Humus is primarily a substance composed of what kind of particles?

Answer 31

Decomposition

Question 32

What is it called when you reuse old materials?

Answer 32

Recycling

Question 33

What are scientist called when they study soil?

Answer 33

Pedologist

Question 34

What is the range of sand sleet clay in humans mixtures called?

Answer 34

Loam

Question 35

What is a chart that provides standard names in descriptions of soil colors?

Answer 35

Munsell chart

Question 36

What are the three most important mineral nutrients for plants primary plant food elements?

Answer 36

Nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium

Question 37

What is a group of chemicals containing the element phosphorus bonds to oxygen and other elements?

Answer 37

Phosphates

Question 38

What stimulates rapid growth of leaves, and stems and plants, a rich green color?

Answer 38

Nitrogen

Question 39

what cycle helps nitrogen move from the air to the soil to be used by plants and then returned to the atmosphere to be used again?

Answer 39

nitrogen cycle

Question 40

what is substance containing atoms of two or more elements bonded together?

Answer 40

compound

Question 41

what is the element that is essential for cell division in growth and promotes plant Maturation?

Answer 41

Phosphorus

Question 42

What is the use of science to solve practical problems?

Answer 42

Technology

Question 43

In the engineering process, what are the minimum characteristic that I design must how to function at all?

Answer 43

Criteria

Question 44

What are any characteristics required to solve the problem?

Answer 44

Constraints

Question 45

What are the six steps in engineering design process?

Answer 45

One state a problem to be solved, to determine the criteria and constraints of the problem, three research and develop possible solutions to the problem, choose a design and make a detailed plan, five and test a prototype, six analyze the prototype and improve the design.

Question 46

What is a model of a design or some part of a design that is used for testing?

Answer 46

Prototype

Question 47

What is the primary function to contribute to the general health of the plant and improve disease resistance?

Answer 47

Potassium

Question 48

What kind of bacteria can ammonia be converted to nitrate buy another kind of bacteria called ?

Answer 48

Nitrifying bacteria

Question 49

What are at the root of plants that use oxygen from the air found in the blank and spaces of soil?

Answer 49

Pore spaces

Question 50

What does impermeable mean?

Answer 50

Nonporous

Question 51

Any collected water bellow The Soil surface is called what?

Answer 51

Groundwater

Question 52

What is the depth that depends on two factors, the size and number of pores in the rocks and soil and the amount of recent rainfall?

Answer 52

Water table

Question 53

What is nursing substances for plants?

Answer 53

Nutrients

Question 54

What is a substance composed of only one type of atom?

Answer 54

Element